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Fortress in Agra, Uttar Pradesh
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Agra Fort. Photo by Hannah Swithinbank
One of the finest Mughal forts in India, the Agra Fort lies about 2 km from the legendary Taj Mahal on the bank of the River Jamuna in the city of Agra in Uttar Pradesh. The ambiguous term Lal Qila or Red Fort is used to denote the Mughal palaces in both Delhi and Agra and so, the Agra Fort is also known as the "Lal Qila" or "Red Fort of Agra". Stretching over an area of more than 2.5 sq km, this fort, which can be aptly described as a walled city, has been declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.
The fort also plays an important role in the Sherlock Holmes novel The Sign of the Four by Arthur Conan Doyle.
Agra Fort dates back to the 11th century ADE, though the present day structure was constructed by the Mughal Emperor, Akbar, in 1573. The fort used to be a rudimentary brick fort under the control of the Rajputs and has been mentioned in an 11th century document when a military force under Mahmud of Ghazni attacked the city of Agra. One of the first rulers to dwell in Agra Fort was the Delhi Sultan, Sikandar Lodi . He ruled the country from this fort and died there in 1517. His son, Ibrahim Lodi, successfully held Agra Fort for another 9 years before succumbing to death in the First Battle of Panipat in 1526 ADE.
It was then that the Mughals under Babur, took control of the fort and confiscated vast treasures including the much talked about Koh-i-Noor diamond from the fortress. Babur is said to have constructed a step, well-known as a Baoli, within the fort's compound. The coronation ceremony of Humayun, the son and successor of Babur, took place in the fort in the year 1530 ADE.
Agra Fort was then passed on to the hand of Sher Shah Suri, who defeated the Mughal Emperor in the Battle of Bilgram and held the fort until his death in 1555, when it was again recaptured by Humayun.
Interior - Agra Fort. Photo by nunavut
Hem Chandra Vikramaditya, also known as Hemu, who was a Hindu king, in an attempt to oust the Muslims from the country went to war and defeated Humayun and took control of the fort. After seizing a large booty from Agra Fort, Hemu went on to capture the Mughal empire's next capital township which was then situated in Delhi. However, he was defeated by Akbar in the Second Battle of Panipat in 1556 and the fort, once again, went under the command of the Mughals.
Because of its strategic location, Akbar shifted his capital from Delhi to Agra in 1558. Akbar's court historian, Abul Fazal, recounts that the Agra Fort used to be a simple brick fort in ruins commonly referred to as 'Badalgarh'. It was Akbar who undertook the task of the reconstruction of the fort and he rebuilt it with red sandstones which also gave the fort its present name. The famous fort was built by nearly 4,000 masons and it took 8 years to complete the construction.
Shah Jahan, the grandson of Akbar, is said to have demolished some structures inside the fort to replace them with his favorite style of constructions made out of white marble. During his last days, the Emperor was imprisoned by his son, Aurangzeb, within Agra fort and it is said that Shah Jahan breathed his last breath in the Muasamman Burj which is a tower with a balcony which commands an excellent view of the Taj Mahal.
After the decline of the Mughal Empire, the fort passed on to the hands of the Maratha Empire. Ahmad Shah Abdali, who defeated the Marathas in the Third Battle of Panipat in 1761, took control of the fort.
In 1785, Mahadji Shinde wrested control of the fort and finally, the British took control of this fortress after defeating the Marathas in the Second Anglo Maratha War in the year 1803.
Agra fort was an important site of battle during the Seepoy Mutiny or the Indian Rebellion of 1857 ADE.
Taj Mahal viewed from the Agra Fort - Agra Fort.
The majestic fort which sprawls over an area of 94 acres has a semicircular plan. It houses a labyrinth of structures with many underground constructions, several of which have been destroyed over the years by successful invasions.
Presently, the Indian Army is stationed in the northern side of the fort and much of the area is not accessible to the tourists.
The fort has four gates on four sides with one gate leading to the Jamuna River.
The four entrances to Agra Fort are called the Delhi Gate, The Lahore Gate, the Amar Singh Gate and the Khizri Gate.
The Delhi Gate is the most majestic of all the gates in Agra Fort and is embellished with intricate marble works. A drawbridge made of wood was used in the earlier days to cross the surrounding moat across these gates. A second inner entrance known as Hathi Pol or Elephant Gate is flanked by two huge stone elephants, lies beyond the primary entrance gateways of the fort.
In his Ain I Akbari, Abul Fazal mentions that the fort used to house more than 500 buildings modeled on the architectural style of Gujarat and Bengal. However, most of these structures were erased by Shah Jahan to accommodate new buildings made of white marbles. Thereafter rest of the older buildings in this fort were also demolished by the British to make way for their new barracks inside thes fortress.
Of the extinct Mughal buildings from Akbar's time, the Bengali Mahal, the Delhi Gate and the Akbar Gate are worth mentioning over here.
The Akbar Gate was later renamed by the British as Amar Singh Gate.
Agra Fort - Agra Fort. Photo by Garrett Ziegler
The Agra Fort constitutes a unique blend of Islamic and Hindu architecture. The Hall of Public Audience called Diwan-i-Am was constructed here by Shah Jahan in 1628.
The small but exquisite mosque known as Nagina Masjid was also built by Shah Jahan for the women of the imperial household living inside Agra Fort.
The Hall of Private Audience in this fort, or the Diwan-i-khas, once contained the legendary 'Peacock Throne' over here which was inlaid with expensive stones of all colors and displayed the famous diamond known as Koh-i-Noor. This throne was carried to Delhi by Aurangzeb and then it was subsequently looted from Delhi and carried to Iran by Nadir Shah.
The Sheesh Mahal or Palace of Mirrors lies on the river side of the fortress and from the eastern side of the fort, one can see the splendid octagonal tower of white marble called Khas Mahal or the Musamman Burj where Emperor Shah Jahan spent his last days.
The expansive courtyard known as Anguri Bagh has an entrance which leads to the underground rooms and hallways which used to house the Harem of Emperor Akbar. However, this part is not accessible to the visitors nowadays.
Further south one can see the Jahangir's Palace made of red sandstone which blends the architectural style of Central Asia and India inside this fort.
climbing monkey - Agra Fort. Photo by rosipaw
Arga is one of the touristic city of India and is easily reachable by train from all important cities in India. The visitor can also choose to spend a few days at New Delhi and then travel to Agra which is only 208 km from the capital city. The Agra Airport connects flights from Agra to other important Indian cities like Jaipur, Delhi, Bombay, Calcutta, Varanasi and others.
Similar Places of Interest
Visitors to Agra must visit the Taj Mahal, which is one of the wonders of the world and the Mughal walled city of Fatehpur Sikri which are also UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
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FILE - New York Yanks football player George Taliaferro (20) poses in New York, Nov. 2, 1950.
African-American sports pioneer George Taliaferro -- the first black player to be drafted by the National Football League -- has died at 91.
Taliaferro was a college football superstar for the University of Indiana when the Chicago Bears chose him in the 13th round of the 1949 NFL draft.
It was the first time any team picked a black player in the annual draft.
But Taliaferro had already signed to play for the Los Angeles Dons of the rival All-America Football Conference and never played for the Bears.
When the smaller league went out of business, Taliaferro joined the NFL. He played six seasons for teams in New York, Dallas, Baltimore and Philadelphia -- playing seven different positions.
When his sports career ended, Taliaferro earned a master's degree at Howard University and held high-ranking positions at several top universities.
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प्रतिष्ठित व्यास सम्मान पुरूस्कार पाने वाले प्रथम व्यक्ति कोन थे ?
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I was just looking at the plans for the Gally cap'n's yacht, and it looks like they designed it to be able to be made out of the E-D viewscreen, ready room, crew quarters (windows) and bridge stations (conn/ops) makes me wonder why they didnt try it.
what does everyone think of the design? i just thought it was neat
I'm going to try and 3D the interior....
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Well, since AFAIK, the only time the Galaxy's Captain's Yacht has been drawn up was for the Tech Manual and the Blueprints, I doubt it was ever "meant" to be made. Whoever drew up those plans may have used elements from the existing sets and obviously used a Galaxy Class "feel" for things like the stations...but I don't think there were ever plans to actually make this set.
I remember that they were thinking of using the Yacht for the trip to the Starbase in "Samaritan Snare" I think, but I don't think it ever got as far as designing the sets. I guarantee that if they were to ever build a set for the Yacht, the existing plans would not inhibit further creativity...
That said, I'm goign to look up the decks plans for this thing when I get home.
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I think that Sternbach (who did most ofthe Tech manual) had it in mind when he designed it... remember , the tech manual came out while the show was still on the air. He probably did the drawings in there intending to stick to them should they ever get a chance to use the thing, so he made sure it wouldnt involve complicated set-building. They always said it ws something they really looked forward to doing one day...
i considered it a let down that the only time we got to see a yacht was insurrection, im still not sure i like that whole design.. it just a big shuttle
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Well, I've never seen a good internal view of the Captain's Yacht! I don't think I can make heads nor tails of the Tech manual pic. And, well I've scoured my E-D blueprints and have found NO Captain's yacht. Which page/blueprint is it supposed to be on?
I have a question. We know that they were going to use it in Samaritan Snare. We also know that the original 6' model had the capability to separate the saucer. I wonder if the Captain's yacht could come out too!?! Same goes for that underslung shuttle on the the Ferengi Marauder.
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I'm just basing my comments on the half-cutaway presented in the TNG Tech Manual. The viewscreen is the exacly the same as the E-D's, same conn/ops console, and the windows on the side are designed to correspond with the interior windows built for all the TNG quarters sets
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"underslung shuttle on the Ferengi Marauder" What is this?? That�s a first for me? I knew the marauder has this weird "pod" on top, but a shuttle under the ship?
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*seconds pIn'a' Sov's head scratching*
Aban's never heard of this either. Care to share a piccie?
Elements in the drawings being the same as the bridge and other sets could be attributed to laziness. Those who drew the plans could simply have taken drawings of the other sets and cut and pasted them together... I'm not saying they did, nor am I saying that there wasn't a plan to use existing sets for the Yacht should it ever be needed, all I'm saying is this: We freaks are darn good at pointing out reused sets. I think it's highly unlikely that they would use the Ent. D's ready room set as the Captain's Yacht's ready room set and expect to get away with it.
Just like I never thought they'd use a Next Generation movie ship design for a ship that predates the original USS Enteprise by 100 years...
but they seem to be getting way with it
(but they could be halfway to mexico by now... lets stop them!)
What does everyone else think: was using drawings of Galaxy set pieces for the Galaxy yacht plans gifted foresight or artistic laziness?
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there was a small cutaway of the Captain's yacht in the TNG:TM???
*flips pages*
oh another thing with this (TNG:TM) manual? is it considered canon by the majority of 'us' since it seems less silly than the DS9 one.
Which brings me to the point, why didn't they build a new vessel under the Nova-class idea (with a different design i suppose)
If they've already done that then i deserve a boot to the head!
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It is mentioned in the Star Trek: The Next Generation compendium. Also look at Adam Heinbuch's schematic:
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It is on the next and the 'head' underneath. It doesn't look like the pod that debuted in "The Price".
Well, most people showed varying degrees of outrage when the new scout vessel design seen in Equinox was referred to as 'Nova-class', because it obviously wasnt intended to perform as a new explorer-type vessel
I'm not sure why. The only mention of the Nova-class was that it was a tentative name given to a series of four possible designs for new explorer type vessels, that would probably be smaller and more maneuverable but just as powerful as the Galaxy.
I would think that these plans would be scrapped anyway, because Starfleet really isnt looking to build any explorer-type vessels right now. Theyve refocused their shipbuilding efforts into smaller escorts and cruisers that present less of a target to the new aggressors that cropped up between the era of the TNG:TM and the current time period.
I also wonder what type of vessel the Sovereign-class is intended to be, since Sternbach, Drexler and Okuda like to call everything an explorer (Excels., Ambass., Intrepid.. etc..) but i think that the militaristic atmosphere aboard the E-E really doesnt make it look very explorer-like, fitting more of the role of a heavy cruiser.
thnx for the information, i forgot about the Equinox *boot-to-the-Head*
Hmm. That's kind of cool. It definitely does look like it could be a little pod under there. It's got the little Fergengi emblems on it too. From that diagram, there also appears to be a separation plane for the head of the Marauder.
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Isn't that for when the Maurader stretches? (An idea used only in "The Last Outpost", and even then it didn't really make sense).
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MrNeutron
Originally posted by Aban Rune:
Um, that "little pod" under the Marauder would be several hundred feet long. Andy Probert says it's a swept-forward wing raiding craft.
And the lines around the front end are where the ship "expands". Andy said the idea was that the when a Fenergi ship surrendered the front end would slide out, the weapons would fold down, and etc. The idea being that they were "exposing their throat" as a sign of capitulation...with the idea that the Enterprise crew would misinterpret the gesture (being unfamiliar with the concept).
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The Mill and Epic Games Push Real-time Boundaries With 'The Human Race'
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In August, SIGGRAPH attendees were treated to an epic Real-Time Live! presentation that featured some of the greatest achievements in real-time graphics from the previous year, including 2017 Best Real-Time Graphics and Interactivity award winner "The Human Race," a project by The Mill and Epic Games. We sat down with the team behind the experience to learn about what's next for real-time.
SIGGRAPH: You delighted the audience at SIGGRAPH 2017 with your Real-Time Live! demonstration. Tell us a bit about how the project started and what your role was in its development.
Joji Tsuruga (JT): "The Human Race" project stemmed from a mutual excitement and interest between The Mill, Epic Games and Chevrolet in pushing the boundaries of real-time filmmaking by utilizing the Blackbird, Mill hinchable Cyclops and Unreal Engine. My main role was to lead The Mill team that crafted the film. I was the bridge between our traditional and real-time visual effect (VFX) team. I also collaborated with Epic's developers to help with a new compositing tool set for Unreal Engine 4 that was newly built for the project.
Eric Renaud-Houde (ERH): I was responsible for the development of The Mill Cyclops in its latest form. On "The Human Race," I also acted as a bridge between Arraiy and Epic Games, by integrating their bespoke tracking library into the Unreal Engine.
Michael Gay (MG): We wanted to do a project that tested how real-time could enhance both the production and the viewer's experience. I acted as sort of technical supervisor for the project on the Epic side and was involved from pre-production to final delivery.
SIGGRAPH: Talk about the origin of "The Human Race." Whose idea was it to visualize a CG car model utilizing The Mill BLACKBIRD® within live action shots?
JT/ERH: Around the same time that The Mill Blackbird was being developed, we were also working on mobile AR applications, and began to think about how it can extend into an on-set tool for VFX shoots. This ultimately led to the creation of The Mill Cyclops, our virtual production toolkit. By combining these two technologies with Unreal Engine, we were able to visualize a CG Camaro against live-action footage, as it drove along the Angeles Crest Highway in real time.
SIGGRAPH: Combining Epic Games' Unreal Engine with The Mill Cyclops™, you were able to create a real-time vision of cars on set. How can this real-time technology improve the filming process and, ultimately, the final product?
JT/ERH: On-set visualization takes the guesswork out of framing, lighting, and performances of subjects that are not readily available during the filming process. The Mill Cyclops achieves this with a precise object track, and accurate environment lighting and reflections through the use of a 360-degree capture. Directors can thus spend less time being distracted by VFX and more time crafting beautiful shots.
MG: By pairing The Mill Cyclops with Epic Games' Unreal Engine 4 we were able to allow the directors to visualize the Blackbird in a way never before possible. They were able to frame up shots and set lighting live during the shoot. This made for faster iteration time and better shots.
SIGGRAPH: Is this technology already influencing new projects within your company?
JT/ERH: The technological approach used on this project has not only influenced new projects, but also has led us to new clients. It has spawned several internal projects, including a virtually puppeteer-ed, flame-breathing, confetti-spewing llama that is shot using The Mill Cyclops.
SIGGRAPH: This is the third consecutive year in which our Best Real-Time Graphics & Interactivity Award has been presented to an Unreal Engine-fueled project. Though game developers have been using Unreal for years, it hasn't quite made a further splash in entertainment. Do you envision that changing soon? Why or why not?
JT/ERH: With their growing enterprise business, it's clear that Epic is rapidly broadening the scope of its engine and emphasizing its utility beyond games. Winning projects at SIGGRAPH are clear indicators of where this technology is headed. As the landscape of entertainment evolves into augmented reality, virtual reality, interactive, and experiential, game engines are simply better suited to handle these emerging media.
MG: Several media and entertainment companies are adopting the Unreal Engine for real-time workflows. Game engines being used more and more in film previsualzation is a trend I expect to continue until final pixels are being rendered in real-time.
SIGGRAPH: In your opinion, what does the future of real-time visual effects look like?
JT/ERH: The future of real-time visual effects will be indistinguishable in quality from what we would expect from traditional VFX today. We will also see a shift from post-heavy to front-loaded workflows as the line between production and post-production is blurred.
SIGGRAPH: What drove you to submit your project for SIGGRAPH review in 2017? Do you have any advice for newcomers?
JT/ERH: Every component of this project was fully dependent on real-time technologies. It was a shoo-in for SIGGRAPH's Real-Time Live! [program] and a proof of concept for how we foresee the future of filmmaking.
MG: We feel the project pushed the bounds of real-time VFX. We hope others are inspired to push it even further, as others in the past have for us!
Michael Gay is a director of cinematic production with Epic Games. In this role, he uses more than 20 years of industry experience to lead the cinematic team, and is responsible for the design and development of Sequencer — the Unreal Engine 4 cinematic tool — as well as the replay system for "Paragon", Epic's MOBA for PlayStation 4 and PC.
Eric Renaud-Houde is a software developer with The Mill.
Joji Tsuruga is a real-time supervisor with The Mill.
"The Human Race", Awards, Best in Show, Blackbird, Cyclops, Epic Games, Interactive Techniques, Real Time Live!, Real-time demos, Real-time graphics, SIGGRAPH 2017, The Mill


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2014, Behind Enemy Lines, Lakeshore Records, Mark Kilian, Review, Score, Seal Team 8, Soundtrack
Seal Team 8 (Mark Kilian)
SEAL TEAM 8
Mark Kilian, 2014, Lakeshore Records
22 tracks, 59:03
What is it? On an unsanctioned mission in Africa, a covert team of U.S. Navy SEALs is sent to locate a secret mining operation and prevent the sale of uranium to international terrorists. The stakes are higher than ever (and so is the body count) as Seal Team Eight must fight their way through the treacherous Congo in order to secure the uranium, expose the unknown buyer, and diffuse one of the greatest threats the world has ever known.
What does it sound like? "I knew I wanted to explore the world of dubstep for the testosterone element," says South African-born composer Mark Kilian. "I also wanted to keep it feeling African and heartfelt without it sounding cheesy or like an afterthought. The majority of my focus was trying to blend those two worlds so they sounded like part of the same story. I wrote some vocal tunes and had two wonderful vocalists singing them for me, which really added a lot to the authenticity we were looking for." And so the album kicks off with electric guitars, break-beats and plenty of granular synth sounds. If you like that kinda thing, you're in for a treat. It makes the dub-step in "The Amazing Spider-Man 2" seem like a walk in the park. You may remember from that review that this isn't really my proverbial cup of tea. It's not at all without merit though. Some of the electronic stuff is pretty cool when it moves away from that nervous hyperactivity that comes with dub-step. The African influence on the score is excellent. The ney and duduk take centre-stage alongside infectious chanting and percussion. "Almost Dead In Africa" is a fantastic track. And in a cue like "The Man That We Just Lost", soulful vocals and strings come together to create a truly poignant atmosphere.
Is it any good? "Seal Team 8" is a score of two halves. The dub-step elements are just too hyperactive for me. The synth geek in me does enjoy some of the electronics (when it isn't being spoiled by dub-step). The African vocals and instrumentation are superb and provide this score with a heart and soul.
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Hard to believe, but after 12 years of community development, the guys from the open-source engine based on Bungie's Marathon trilogy Aleph One have finally released a version called 1.0!
But honestly? This thing even runs on your cell phone (unless you have a talking brick like me :p ), so no reason not to play it yourself.
Edit: *hust* that was shoddy investigative journalism by me again :( In fact Aleph One does not seem to run on cell phones yet.


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Lanzarote Information
LANZAROTE HOLIDAYS
LANZAROTE MAP
Art Ancient And Modern
Includes an exclusive interview with Estefania Comego Quinteco
Grabado En Linea – Sede del Cabildo – March 2019
Arminda Arteta discusses
Pancho Lasso and his aesthetic vision of Lanzarote
Cic El Almacen, Arrecife – March 2019
Spending a full day in Arrecife recently, we were able to catch two arts events, as one was held at mid-day in The Cabildo at one end of the promenade and the other at eight o'clock in the evening at Cic El Almacen, up near The Gran Hotel at the other end.
The day being warm and sunny, we spent the hours in between strolling around Charco de San Gines and enjoyed some long and lazy fine-dining on the world's greatest pizza, a Bianca (glazed pear and walnuts), washed down by a pint, a Tia Maria and a cappuccino at the Divina Italia. We were regally entertained by un-intrusive buskers plying their trades for the coins dropped into their hats by those on shore from the massive cruise liners we had seen docked just round the coast line. A gentle singer guitarist performed acoustic songs from the sixties and circus artists, like clowns and stilt walkers, all straggly hair and red noses, paraded along the walk way around the water.
By now it was late afternoon and the schools were obviously out as groups of young teenagers arrived for their canoeing lessons, and to watch them paddle out across still water in a dozen or so vessels, weaving their way out to sea around all the scores of small boats moored in the harbour, made for a languid but colourful site. As they disappeared under the bridge, out on to the ocean, the setting sun warmed our faces as we read our newspapers for an hour or two.
We spent a blissful couple of hours in this area that seems to have benefitted greatly from the coming of the cruise liners and the region's re-gentrification continues at a pace.
It will be interesting to see how plans, already in progress, for a similar development affect our own town of Playa Blanca.
The first event of the day we had attended at The Cabildo was now beginning to seem like a distant memory but that was more likely due to the sun, food and drink than to any lacking in the exhibition. Of course, we seem fated to fated to remain unable to write a review without mentioning some misadventure we have along the way. The little leaflet that is the monthly arts and cultural agenda is collated by that department in The Cabildo and this event was advertised in that leaflet as the inauguration of an exhibition to be showing for the next few weeks in the Cabildo.
The blurb in the leaflet promised a rare opportunity for us to have a look at some of the most significant pieces of art, held in different venues within the Cabildo, that are not often placed on public display. The Cultural Area of the building, however, has put together this new display, created by art historian Estefania Comego Quinteco, that includes pieces made and engraved at The Taller De Linea on Lanzarote. The collation also includes work by artists such as Jose Manuel Broto, Juan Munoz, Pedro Cabrita Reis, Cristina Iglesias and Susana Solano and her work with Gonzalo Gonzales.
When we had first wandered into the Cabildo a year or so ago we had been amazed that the general public were given access to what is a fairly important building full of some fairly important people and some fairly important art works and perhaps even political artefacts.
Each subsequent visit, though, has seen a slight increase in security measures until these days we are asked to show passports and / or residencia cards and to pass metallic objects we might be carrying under the x-ray search machine.
The security officer at the front desk, and the receptionist you can approach only when you have been through this still fairly quick procedure, perhaps have more tasks to undertake these days than previously but nevertheless we were disappointed to be met by blank stares when we showed them the agenda and asked precisely where in the building today's events might be. The receptionist was apologetic but said she knew nothing about it and phoned up to another floor to make enquiries for us.
She then put the phone down and said the event was not being held here but was at Castillo de San Jose up near where cruise liners dock.
Off we set, hot foot, and took two junctions up to the Ikea at the end of the motorway and pulled up, Starsky and Hutch style, into the castle car park. We leapt out of our vehicle, me bouncing over the bonnet in best David Soul fashion, and raced into the little tourist office. The young man behind the counter was as mystified by our request as had been the receptionist at the Cabildo but very helpfully offered to phone the tourist information office for us. However, he could then only shrug his shoulders apologetically and say that the lady on the other end of the phone had assured him the event was, indeed, being held in The Cabildo.
So, at beyond the speed of sound we accelerated back to the future, or at least back to from whence we came. It being lunch time, there had been a shift-change at the Cabildo, but nevertheless, the second receptionist knew no more about such an event as had the first, and again she made a phone call to a colleague elsewhere in the building.
This time light was shed, and the receptionist apologised with such a lovely smile that I would have forgiven her anything as she told us to go on up to the third floor. We breathed a sigh of relief but as soon as we stepped into the lift (I don't do stairs) confusion took over when we saw buttons saying (in Spanish) sotano, (basement), planta baja (ground), primero (first) and Segundo (second) but for third, button was there none.
With a resigned sigh we stepped out on the second floor and were greatly relieved to see, hung on the walls of the corridors, paintings ascribed to some of the artists mentioned in the blurb. However, we had obviously missed the inauguration as we were the only people wandering down these of ´halls of fame´!
Nevertheless, that gave us the opportunity to peruse at our leisure the art works on display, and I was most struck by how ahead of their time so many of these artists were. Cesar Manrique, in particular, seems to have been a graphic designer even before that term was coined and many of his works on display here had been employed as logos for various projects, campaigns or commemorations. That could also be said of other artists on display such as Jose Manuel Broto, Juan Numoz and Pedro Cabrita Reis.
All these works, were emblematic of Lanzarote, inviting us to study and scrutinise an art as if it were a 3D, to find a camel, or a volcano or the sun almost hidden within, but there was a greater sense, in seeing all these paintings together, of how these artists had moved the island forward towards its current standing in the modern world without sacrificing anything of its historic identity.
As we left the building we were, perhaps, feeling a little underwhelmed by the quantity of the work we had seen but we were absolutely enthusing about its qualities. Our excited chat came to a sudden stop, though, when we heard a young lady's voice from behind yelling ´Ola´ at us. We turned around to see the lady hurrying towards us before introducing herself by asking if we spoke Spanish.
When I shamefully replied ´not one single word of it´ and Dee responded with ´un poco´ or some such, the girl smiled and said, Áh, English,´ and proceeded to talk to us in a more accurate rendition of our own language than we are able to give. She said she had noticed us looking at the art work, and that she would like to introduce herself as its curator, Estefania Camejo Quinteco. The cultural agenda leaflet describes her as an art historian, but she described herself to us as a freelance curator.
She seemed delighted by our response to ´Insularia, sixty years of art in the Cabildo building´ (advertised under the snappier title of Grabado En Linear) but we hadn't the heart to tell her we were disappointed by the relatively few works on display. However, as I was wondering whether or not to mention that, she said something about the works being dotted all over each floor of the building. We kept our counsel and said nothing about the staff's lack of awareness about it all, as her enthusiasm didn't deserve to be deflated.
Estefania then mentioned, in passing, that after being commissioned to curate this commemoration there had been a sharp intake of breath when she suggested actually holding it in the public building, and that the subsequent logistics of installation, too, had been difficult. She remained adamant, though, that these artists and their works were deserving of such prominent and privileged display. She spoke of how hard it was in their day, and similarly for present day artists, to earn a living on the island, and how important their work was and is to the growth of Lanzarote .
Then she gave us an informal invitation to an add-on event at this same venue, pencilled in for mid-day on Saturday 30th March, at which she will give a guided tour and talk around the exhibition. She then said goodbye, adding that she hoped she might see us there. She most certainly will, and then, hopefully, we'll get to see all the art work we had missed on this visit, by artists such as Mario Delgado and Juan Gopar among many.
So we passed the rest of the afternoon in the soporific manner described earlier, before setting off for the evening event at Cic El Almacen, where we arrived at just about seven thirty for an eight o'clock kick off.
That gave us just time for a drink and a bite from the tapas menu. We ordered, for Dee, a goat and goat's cheese kebab whilst I went for an offering of pork on a sweet potato base, and we each had a beer. Neither dish looked as it had in our imagination, perhaps, but instead was exquisitely presented and tasted absolutely delicious. Service was quick and friendly in the small restaurant area where every table was taken, and next time we will have the full platters and not have a lunch beforehand.
Miguel, of Lanzarote Information, tells me that, when he first arrived on the island, El Almacen was a dilapidated shell, but he knew the story behind it, that Manrique and friends opened it as a cool, "arty" hang out where you could watch a movie, see some art, grab some tapas etc. and above all be challenged. There has been a refurbishment in the past year or so and the venue is now, he feels, returned to exactly what Cesar and chums hoped it would be.
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When we had spoken to Estefania earlier about coming to this ´conference´ tonight she told us she knows the presenter Arminda Arteta, and said it was likely she would present in Spanish as that would be the first language of 99% of the audience. We stepped into the theatre and managed to grab a seat in the middle of the second row from the front, which offered us a great view of the podium from which Arminda would speak and of the huge power point screen hung at the back of the stage, which would so help our understanding.
I recall that art critic Robert Hughes once employed the phrase ´the shock of the new´ in his book and TV series of that title, in the nineteen eighties that changed the way people thought about modern art. I was reminded of that phrase, as Arminda spoke about the work of Pancho Lasso, a Lanzarote artist closely associated with the Vallescas School of the surrealist movement. Lasso gave expression in his work to his own artistic commitment by creating avant garde art work.
He is credited with sharing his aesthetic values and views of the island's natural artistic grandeur with the young Cesar Manrique and others, and Arminda Arteta covered all this ground and beyond in a wide ranging talk.
She had not only curated this on-line collection but also had written her own informative and informed notes to deliver to accompany it. From our position it was interesting to see the front row, (reserved for artists and dignitaries) nodding their heads at many of her arguments.
She spoke, into a radio mic, of a number of artists who worked alongside one another or who were sufficiently aware of each other to produce comparative work. In mentioning all this, Arminda echoed a sentiment that Estefania had brought up in our lunch time conversation about how important it is that great works of art are somehow enabled to ´speak to each other´ and it was fascinating about how both these arts historians seemed to share that passion.
As Arminda Arteta told us about Pancho Lasso and his aesthetic vision of Lanzarote and how he wanted art to be spoken about in everyday language rather than in the hallowed tones of academia, I was reminded that the English Lakeland poet, William Wordsworth, felt the same way, as he described eloquently in his poem The Table Turned. He sought to preserve the beauty of his part of England against the coming of machinery and technology threatened by The Industrial Revolution, gathering pace only sixty miles South of where he lived.
Nevertheless, as Arminda clearly illustrated how these artists she had collated had exerted such a major influence on Lanzarote, I found myself thinking about an idea that has fascinated me for many years. I recall having an interesting debate on live tv with Canadian novelist Margaret Attwood about whether artists shape their landscapes or their landscapes shape them, and tonight's talk by Arminda also put me in mind of the enclave of songwriters and poets who gathered in Austin, Texas in the mid sixties to the late eighties.
Guy Clark, Townes Van Zandt and their acolytes re-wrote the past myths of the Lone Star State, re-built its musical present and re-imagined its future status as the hub of creative arts it has since become.
The way Arminda wove this narrative certainly engaged a front row that included the island's Director Of Art And Culture, Oscar Sanchez. Similarly spellbound was the rest of an audience comprised of established and aspiring artists and others, like me, with precious little artistic ability, but who simply love the arts and what they can achieve socially and politically. It is a great credit to Arminda that she kept us all so engrossed in her down-to-earth style and with her obvious love of her subject.
The story of the arts has shown us often enough how today's avant garde becomes tomorrow's traditional and both Estefania's exhibition and this ´lecture´ of Arminda's demonstrate perfectly how the fusion of ancient and modern can so often explode into thoughtful, provocative and exciting art and how drawing on tradition to create contemporary work was so accurately labelled ´the shock of the new´.
IN CONVERSATION WITH THE CURATOR
Speaking with Estefania Camejo Quinteco, curator
Grabado En Linea, Cabildo Offices, Arrecife March 2019
We arrived at the closed-for-business Cabildo at mid-day on Saturday 30th March, to be greeted on the steps by a smiling young lady who introduced herself to us as Estafania Comejo. You will know from a previous feature on these pages (or you can check in our archives for ´Art Ancient and Modern´) that a couple of weeks ago my wife and I were given some misinformation about the inauguration of Grabado En Linea, put together by Estefania to highlight work by artists such as Jose Manuel Bruto, Juan Munoz, Pedro Cabrita Reis, Cristina Iglesias, Gonzalo Gonzalez and Susana Solano.
As we left somewhat dejectedly after that visit, Estefania suggested we might enjoy taking a closer look at the art work in a fortnight's time at her scheduled talk about some of its most interesting aspects.
We were to be joined on this guided tour, it seemed, by another ten or so people and what a joy it was for all of us. There is nothing more exciting than listening to an expert enthuse eloquently about their particular field of expertise. This exhibition is of works that celebrate Lanzarote's landscape and cultural history, most of them emanating from funded workshops held in the nineteen nineties. The works are part of collections held by the various departments of the Cabildo that are not always shown to the public.
For further information and detail type Grabado En Linea into your search engine and then copy what comes up on to a new word document. You can then hover over the information on that document and press translate, and although the result is a little bit computer-speak it offers a much clearer understanding, in your own language, of what the collection is all about.
The tour took a languid couple of hours that turned out to be quite magical. Estefania loves the arts and spoke enthusiastically of the colours, strokes, perspectives and social context of the items and the artists who produced them. She didn't present her knowledge to us as a closed door beyond which there was nothing left to discover, but instead she offered what she knew to open the door for us into a world of informed wonderment.
Her own preference seemed to be for the colours and vibrancy that so epitomise Lanzarote but I was also intrigued by some of the more sombre pieces, some almost of dark monochrome. One of the larger paintings of the more than fifty on display reminded me of Too Heavy A Sky, a poem written twenty years ago by British poet Pam Mckee. The painting showed a landscape seemingly compressed, flattened and diminished by towering, portentous and threatening clouds.
Although I have seen skies like that here on Lanzarote they rarely deliver the rain they seem to be warning us of, and I was intrigued about whether or not the artist had deliberately subdued the landscape in his work and if so, what point was he seeking to make.
Esefania was delivering her thoughts in Spanish, and rightly so as that was the first language of our fellow pilgrims on this journey. Some of those travellers became quite animated, asking questions and debating certain aspects of the art with its curator. Estefania seemed to enjoy that cut and thrust and there was a constant buzz of chatter as she led us across three floors of the building, up and down long, wide corridors and stopping at each painting to tell us more about the artist and his or her work.
The vocabulary might not have magically translated itself for me, nor for my wife Dee, but we both recognised the passion for the subject matter and the sheer joy of sharing that passion with like-minded people. She and the paintings made me think, and that is all I ask of art.
As the tour came to a conclusion and the rest of the party gave her their thanks and drifted away, I wondered whether Estefania might be able to spare a few minutes for a brief interview. I knew from our previous meeting that she speaks perfect English (perfecter than what mine is anyway !) and so I asked her politely if we could record a chat.
The three of us sat round a table in the strangely quiet historic building in which the security guard was now the only other occupant. There are many things I should have asked her that you might have been interested in. How old is she,….I´m guessing still in her twenties. Is she from Lanzarote,….again I guess so, but I should have asked where she acquired her obviously broad education in the arts and in languages,…but I was much more interested in the modesty that, despite her obvious education and depth of knowledge, had her describe herself simply as ´a freelance curator´ when ´art historian´ would seem more appropriate.
´I am a mediator, really,´ she smiles. ´I am not an artist, not a practitioner at all. I am simply someone who loves art and wants to communicate art to the people, because sometimes the artists themselves are quite closed. They are working in the studios and they are working on an idea but they do not always make the details available to the general public. My job is to understand those ideas and share them with people, and spread the love of art to the people.´
How far is it possible to spread that love, though? I wonder if a love of Lanzarote artwork can be conveyed to Russian or American art lovers and, indeed, even whether art that is parochially produced can it be universally loved?
´I think that is possible, of course,´ she replies immediately before going on to explain, ´because sometimes I do not have to explain anything and people do not need my words because Lanzarote speaks for itself ! The art produced by Lanzarote artists, or by foreign artists living or working in Lanzarote, speaks of Lanzarote in a good way. It is very material and very impressive so my job is made very easy because people can feel that. If someone lives here, or only visits here for a couple of days, they can feel the energy of the island and its landscape. And you can feel then the energy of the art works. If you don't feel that energy even in an hour of looking at this art work,….then something is wrong.´
So to bring these strands of conversation towards a conclusion I look for a place to tie the knot, and I realise that Estefania has talked about how the art speaks for itself, and speaks for its place of origin and, indeed, for its creator. I am reminded of something said at the previous night's inauguration of the Almacen 1974 exhibition that served also as the launch event of the 100 Years: Lanzarote And Cesar events. It had been suggested that art also speaks to art, and I ask whether Estefania agrees with that point.
´Not always,´ she contradicts, after a moment's consideration. ´There are particular kinds of art, just as there are particular kinds of people, and sometimes art might speak about art but at other times it might speak about society, communities or relationships. I don't think that a law for artists, or a law for the art, works. The key is to make people understand your idea. If you have an idea about anything, communicate. Whether you are talking about the sky and clouds or social issues like immigration the key is that you have to connect that idea to people, to connect people to your art. This is the thing, I think. This is what artists must look for,..that connection.´
I am interested in her viewpoint, and I reflect on a work that we had looked at on her tour, that was painted in a vivid and somehow quite violent red.
There have certainly been periods in modern history across Europe when such a colour would have been taken as representing a political persuasion, but on hearing Estefania's tone when talking about the piece, I had not sensed her speaking of the work holding a political viewpoint.
´It sometimes happens that we, the audience, associate something with a political or social event or viewpoint, but that is all relative to our own perspective,´ Estefania believes. ´A colour is as likely to be applied by the artist to represent a landscape rather than a political or social issue. The way we each look at a painting can be influenced by where we have lived or where were educated. The way you look at a painting and the way I look at a painting is affected by all those things. Contemporary art often makes a greater demand on us than that simple reaction.´
´It requires us to make an effort and that is why, sometimes, contemporary art fails to make a connection,…not so much that it has failed but that we are lazy. We don't like to think, we don't like to study, we don't like to know more than we can plainly see.´
´We are in the age of short attention span, the instant gratification of social media and we turn the pages of books towards the photographs, not always to the text.´
If I had translated correctly in any way I thought she had said, earlier, during her tour, that in the era when the work on show was produced there was a desire to communicate among the artists and a receptivity among the public that created a real energy. Is Estefania implying that either art, or society has changed in the last few decades?
´In those days the artists were fighting to have their voices heard,´ Estefania suggests, ´and to be given the freedom to create new things. Today, the artists have that freedom but a by-product of that is that people don't feel the need to understand that art which is produced. Maybe, before, there was a necessity for the artists to gain the understanding from the people to help them secure that freedom but now the artists doesn't have to fight for that understanding, and so it is different.´
This young lady has, even in what was only intended to be a cosy little chat, been thoughtful, and stimulating. Her passion burns, not only for arts and artists but also for the communities from which they emerge. I pre-empt my final question by suggesting that as a freelance collator, with all her life skills and professional talents, she would be in huge demand in England by artists and galleries alike.
¨Yes, I could work in London,´ she laughed. ´That is why I am a freelancer, which I hope to be for the rest of my life because I am doing the thing I love. I think I can give something to people when I talk about art. I am committed to continue talking about art and making art special for other people, to help them have a better life through art.´
´I think the people who came here today for this tour are now somewhere talking about the art and perhaps are in a different mood,´ she says, wistfully.
´I hope they have a different outlook than that they came here with this morning. If they feel in a better frame of mind or have some new ideas that feels like a gift for me, so I want to continue talking about creative people and the things they create.´
It is certainly true, I think, that when any of us who attended today's guided tour next approach or bump into new art work we will at least have some new points of references with which to work.
´Absolutely,´ Estefania agrees, ´and I hope, in fact I'm sure, that those people who came will now be more likely in the future to read a book on arts subjects or to listen to somebody talking in depth on the subject.´
There is a follow up to the Grabado En Linea exhibition, also curated by Estefania that will open at the Cabildo on Tuesday May 29th and will run through until Saturday July 28th. This one collates works by artists, including Manrique, of course, and others such as his nephew Carlos Matallana, Juan Gopar and Mario Delgado. Estefania has prepared a showing that seeks to strengthen the intangible ties that binds us to landscape as a form of artistic expression.
The exhibition will be open from Monday to Saturday from 10.00 am to 2.OO pm and it might be worth looking out for any special announcements on Lanzarote Information or on the Cabildo's own web site in case Estefania might deliver a similar guided tour as that which we attended. If that happens we hope to see you there, because we certainly would make every effort to listen again to this ´freelance curator´ who manages to show us the real world and then open our eyes to the imagined.
Because I prefer not to research artists who might be unknown to me before I encounter their work, or interview them, I only discovered a feature about her on another web site several days after, or so I thought, completing this piece.
I feel it is better to come to know artists and their art organically, a method Estefania might or not agree with. I can identify one song, for instance, as having led me into years of studying Texan and Mexican music. The song, I Want The Real Thing, about the writer's search for artistic integrity and authenticity, was written by Chip Taylor, who also wrote two massive hits from the nineteen sixties, Wild Thing and Angel of The Morning. He is a passionate and compelling interviewee when discussing his work and that is all it takes for art to spread,….creative artists, exciting work and an advocate as proud and persuasive Chip Taylor, or Estefania !
To learn more of her articulate views (delivered in English) about the purpose of art and the role it plays in our lives, have a look for her revealing interview given to the Coolturalanzarote web site https://www.coolturalanzarote.com/en/1890/
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Alma Robles Apodaca is LP's new Board Chair. "I've been involved with LP since its founding, but not always on the board. LP has been volunteer-run for a number of years. We've managed to put a class through every year since 1999, with the exception of one year. We're now at a point where I want the organization to grow. This is really important work, and I want to ensure that we're able to sustain it going forward. We can't do that on a volunteer basis. My big hope for this next year is to make sure that we fund an executive director role. We're also looking at developing a leadership program for veterans. These are our big plans. We are really looking at what's next for us," per Alma.
Leadership Pasadena's mission is to create exceptional, engaged community leaders for the betterment of the greater Pasadena community. Serving on non-profit Boards is an important way graduates can make an impact and Leadership Pasadena (LP) is proud to partner with Jericho Road Pasadena to provide Board matching services for LP participants starting next month.
Jericho Road's expertise is bridging communities by matching the professional talents of volunteers with the needs of community-based nonprofit organizations to promote community development, strengthen social services, and enrich the lives of volunteers. Jericho Road Pasadena was spearheaded by members of Neighborhood Unitarian Universalist Church of Pasadena, who worked with the Flintridge Center to assess whether there was a need in the local nonprofit community for capacity-building services. When the answer was a clear "Yes," local volunteers began raising operating funds and creating its structure. For seven years now, Jericho Road Pasadena has served the Pasadena community by providing nonprofit community benefit organizations needed professional or technical expertise free of charge.


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With its location at the center of RJTR's 12th and Midtown project as well as between the High Museum of Art, the Woodruff Arts Center and the historic Fox Theatre, Loews Atlanta Hotel was designed around the idea and story line of a clean-lined, Southern, contemporary hotel centered within and inspired by Atlanta's cultural arts. Loews Atlanta Hotel is part of a RJTR-designed 2.3 million square-foot mixed-use facility which also includes Class A office, retail, parking and residential space. The hotel offers 414 keys, a full-service restaurant, lobby bar, and a 23,000 SF spa and fitness center, as well as ample meeting space, including a 10,000 SF grand ballroom, a 5,300 SF junior ballroom, and 5,000 SF of smaller meeting rooms. The hotel is one of Midtown Atlanta's top places to stay for the business traveler, movie and film industries, and has quickly become one of its most highly regarded. In his book, "Hotel Design, Planning and Development," author Richard Penner cited Loews Atlanta Hotel as a great example of hotel planning.


Do it yourself home improvement is a long established tradition of hobby and equity enhancement that has received a real boost in recent years thanks to the spate of popular television shows dealing with various aspects of home improvement. If you're looking to get newly started in this direction, it is full of great opportunity and a wonderful sense of satisfaction from both the money you can save and the great sense of personal accomplishment you can achieve. Beginners at the DIY game, though, shouldn't allow their eagerness to get ahead of a sound assessment of what lies ahead. Think of this as your DIY guide for beginners. Here are the DIY tips that will ensure you get off on the right foot, get the most of your DIY for beginners experience and the results of your efforts have the best chance of fulfilling your dreams.
1. Skill acquisition in DIY home improvement should be self-paced. Your enthusiasm for the task at hand goes a long way in this regard. Enthusiasm is a great motivator to both persist in completing the project and to learn what you need to know to do so. If you're a complete beginner, it's a good idea to avoid early, excessive ambition, and stick with small, doable projects. This will be more fun for you and contribute to the success that will inspire you to gradually move up to more demanding jobs.
2. Knowledge acquisition is also important. There are certain things that cannot be assumed. When you're dealing stuff like electrical systems and cabinet designs, you don't want to be winging it. Do your research and do it well. Again, always limit yourself to the doable projects. Making a table may be doable, but replacing your living room's large chandelier on your own could be a real mess. Learn while having fun and soon you'll find yourself well prepared to move on to the next project. This kind of knowledge accumulation is the recipe for DIY success in home improvement.
3. Time is always going to be a challenge. Most of us are pretty busy with work and family life as it is. If you can't find time for your pet project, it's better to postpone then rush headlong into a potential mess. Reschedule it for next summer or for during the holidays. Not only will this approach avoid the discouragement of unfinished projects, it minimizes clutter and avoids material waste resulting from missed expiration dates.
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Ticket Statuses reflect the current state of a ticket and are completely customizable on a per ticket type basis.
Keeps Users prioritized: Ticket Statuses are used to identify major and interim steps that a ticket might be in at any given time. This granularity allows your users to quickly filter through tickets on their Ticket Grids based on statuses. For example, a User may want to focus first on tickets with a status of "New" or "Customer Replied", as opposed to tickets with a status of "On Hold" or "Pending Customer Reply". This allows your Users to be able to prioritize themselves and keep their tickets organized.
Metrics: Ticket Statuses can give Supervisors insight into how long response times are, and other important metrics. You will find a table called "Ticket Status History" in our Reporting tool which will allow you to analyze this data.
Can be managed in Ticket Automation: You can automatically change a ticket status using Ticket Automation. One common use of this is to have a status called "Pending Closure". Your users can select this status, then a few days later, Ticket Automation can actually close the ticket by updating the status to "Closed". This may be used if you feel like you need to give your Customers a heads up before the ticket actually closes.
Keeps Customers in the loop: Status are displayed on the Customer Hub for your Customers to view. If you find that your Customers often ask questions regarding what the status is of their accounts, directing them to the Customer Hub will allow them to find this answer on their own without a request from your Support team.
Bulk status changes: You can change multiple statuses at once from the Ticket Grids.
Ticket statuses are completely customizable and are unique to each ticket type. Having unique status based on your ticket types allows you the flexibility to define different workflows for different types of tickets. For example, you may have a ticket type called "Billing" which has unique steps and status that are not found in any other group or type of ticket. You can create as many statuses as you like, and can also configure Workflow around them.
To customize your ticket status, go to the Admin section on the left hand navigation, then select the "Custom Properties" tab. Select "Ticket Status" from the "System Property Type:" drop down menu. Finally, select the ticket type you would like to work with.
* The first status in the list will be used as the default status. This is the status that will be used when a new ticket arrives in your system, so we recommend calling this status "New". The statuses will appear in the dropdown list on a ticket in the same order as they appear in this list. To rearrange statuses, or to change the default, use the up and down green arrows.
From here, you can modify all of the possible "steps" or "statuses" a ticket can be in during its lifecycle.
Name: This field names the status. The name will appear in the drop down list on the Ticket Page and throughout TeamSupport and the Customer Hub. This field is required.
Description: The Description field is optional. It will be displayed in this admin menu to give a brief description for what the purpose of the status should be.
Is Closed: This field will tell TeamSupport that the ticket is in a closed state when this status is selected. You may have several statuses which indicate the ticket is closed. For example, in a Task ticket, you may have closed states for "Completed" and "Abandoned" – Both with indicate that the ticket is closed, but with different results.
Send Closed Email: This setting will force TeamSupport to send a specific email message to you customers when a ticket is closed. The template for this email can be customized by going to Admin->Email and editing the template for "Ticket Closed". Please Note: This setting applies to the "Ticket Closed" email only. To prevent Ticket Closed and Status Update emails from being sent when a closed status is selected, you must set "Send Closed Email" = False AND "Disable ticket status update emails" = True. The "Disable ticket status update emails" is found under Admin -> My Company -> General Tab. By default, a Ratings message is embedded in your Closed Email template.
Email Response: This field can be "True" for only one of your statuses, and you might choose to call this status "Customer Replied". If a customer updates a ticket that has a status other than your default status (described above) either via email reply or from the Hub, it will get updated to this status. Oftentimes a customer will submit a ticket, and then reply quickly back to the confirmation email before your team has a chance to respond to the ticket. For this reason, if a ticket is in the default status, and a customer replies, the status will not be updated. This email response status is important because it will indicate that a customer is waiting for your response. You may also wish to capture metrics on this status, and the default status, to determine how long your customers wait to hear back from your Support team.
Pause SLA: If you will be using the SLA feature, you may want to pause the timer on the SLA on certain statuses. For example, you may not want to include time spent where you are waiting for a response from a customer. In this example, you may have a status called "Pending Customer Reply" which has the Pause SLA box checked.
Customer Emails Upon Status Change: You have the option to send email updates whenever there is a status change on a ticket. This may help to keep your customers up to date with the ongoings of a ticket. The setting can be found under Admin -> My Company tab -> "Disable ticket status update emails". By default, this setting is "False" which means if you have a ticket that is marked "visible to customers" and a contact associated to the ticket, each time the status changes on a ticket, an email will be sent to the customer. This email template is called "Ticket Update" and can be configured in your admin section.
Workflow: To add workflow to these ticket statuses, please remember you need to visit the Workflow tab after your status have been defined. More specifically, what statuses will be visible as next possible selections based on the current status selected within each ticket.


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World Cup 2022: Otto Addo resigns as Ghana boss after elimination
2nd Dec 2022 | Source: BBC
Ghana was Addo's first managerial job after several roles at clubs in Germany and Denmark
Otto Addo has resigned as Ghana boss following their World Cup group-stage elimination.
The 47-year-old former Ghana international replaced the sacked Milovan Rajevac in February, initially as interim boss, and was given a deal until the end of December.
He also has the role of talent coach at German side Borussia Dortmund.
"I always said if we qualified for the World Cup I'd resign afterwards, even if we were world champions," he said.
"My family see our future in Germany."
Ghana beat South Korea in between defeats by Portugal and Uruguay - in Addo's final game - to finish bottom of Group H.
"Football is beautiful, sometimes it is ugly. It is ugly for us today. We have to learn and I'm very sure we will learn from this in the future," he said.
Addo was born in Hamburg to Ghanaian parents and has spent most of his playing and coaching career in Germany.
Dykes admitted to hospital
Galaxies, Niger battle for semis slot tonight
Martinez ends Belgium reign after WC exit
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Kularts presents Kodakan: large-scale media projections by artists Cece Carpio & Wilfred Galila juxtapose vintage images of SF Filipino-Americans with photos/video images of the contemporary community to challenge long-held notions of Filipinos blending in or assimilating. Celebrating a community with deep roots in the SOMA, this work examines perceptions of what/who is Filipino. The 10 minute video will loop through, to the accompaniment of music by Ron Quesada's Kulintronica, a fusion of traditional kulintang and electronic music, combined with live guitar looping.
Yerba Buena Night is a free outdoor evening of public art, music, dance, and performance. The festival is FREE to the public to bring art within everyone's reach, cast a new light on a neighborhood with 24 museums and galleries, and generally offer everyone a fun time! Part of Yerba Buena Weekend, Yerba Buena Night is mainly adult-oriented and encourages interaction and participation. Hope you can join us!


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I just added items #1,367 through #1,375 to my list of Obama's lies and lawbreaking
The complete list can be found at https://danfromsquirrelhill.wordpress.com/2013/08/15/obama-252/
Here are the new entries:
1,367) Chicago community organizers accused Chicago community organizer Obama of not practicing what he preaches
Before Obama ran for political office, he was a community organizer in Chicago.
Later, as an ex-President, he was planning to build his presidential library in Chicago.
However, the city's other community organizers accused Obama of not practicing what he preaches.
In November 2017, the Washington Post reported:
In what local pundits are calling the irony of ironies, Obama — who cut his teeth as a South Side community organizer — is now in the bull's eye of the area's community organizers.
Dozens of groups have asked the city, the Obama Foundation and the University of Chicago (the official library host) to sign a legally binding pledge to protect low-income housing and homeowners, set aside 80 percent of jobs for immediate neighbors and bolster support for black-owned businesses, among other things.
At a community meeting last month, Obama said he wasn't interested, according to the Chicago Tribune. Agreements such as those, he said, can be highly successful for communities dealing with for-profit developers.
"But here's the thing," he said. "We are a nonprofit and aren't making money. We are just bringing money to the community."
1,368) Obama was photographed smiling with racist and anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan
Louis Farrakhan is a racist and anti-Semite.
Askia Muhammad is a professional, award-winning journalist who "doggedly covered" Obama.
In 2005, Muhammad took a photograph of Obama and Farrakhan smiling together.
However, Muhammad did not let the photograph be published at the time.
It wasn't until a year after Obama left the White House that Muhammad allowed the photograph to be published.
In January 2018, Muhammad said that he held the photograph back from publication because, regarding Obama's chance of getting elected President:
"I insist. It absolutely would have made a difference."
1,369) Photographs show how horribly the Obama administration treated illegal aliens
The photographs at this link show how horribly the Obama administration treated illegal aliens.
1,370) Obama supporters falsely blamed President Trump for a 2014 photograph of illegal alien children being mistreated by the Obama administration
In May 2018, Obama supporters falsely blamed President Trump for a 2014 photograph of illegal alien children being mistreated by the Obama administration.
1,371) "Obama administration approved $200G grant to group with Al Qaeda ties"
In July 2018, Fox News reported:
Obama administration approved $200G grant to group with Al Qaeda ties
The Obama administration approved a $200,000 grant to a group in Sudan with ties to Al Qaeda even though it had been designated a terrorist-financing organization by the U.S. years earlier…
Further, an agency official acknowledged the prior administration allowed taxpayer money to flow to the group even after its designation was discovered.
The 2014 grant to the Islamic Relief Agency, through the U.S. Agency for International Development, was revealed by Sam Westrop of the Middle East Forum in a story for the National Review.
"More stunningly, government officials specifically authorized the release of at least $115,000 of this grant even after learning that it was a designated terror organization," Westrop wrote in the article.
1,372) The "most transparent administration in history" did not tell the public when it approved a $200,000 grant to an organization with ties to Al Qaeda
In 2014, the Obama administration approved a $200,000 grant to the Islamic Relief Agency, a Sudanese organization with ties to Al Qaeda. However, the grant was kept secret until 2018.
1,373) After Obama said "I do think at a certain point you've made enough money," he signed a book deal which was worth at least $30 million
In April 2010, Obama said
"I do think at a certain point you've made enough money."
You can see him saying it at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpoTSeuLffA
However, less than two months after leaving the White House, he signed a book deal which was worth at least $30 million.
1,374) At the same time that Obama criticized rich people who owned mansions, he owned an $8.1 million mansion
In July 2018, Obama said:
"There's only so much you can eat. There's only so big a house you can have. There's only so many nice trips you can take. I mean, it's enough."
"History shows that societies which tolerate vast differences in wealth feed resentments and reduce solidarity and actually grow more slowly. And when economic power is concentrated in the hands of the few, history also shows that political power is sure to follow and that dynamic eats away at democracy."
However, in June 2017, Obama had purchased an $8.1 million mansion in Washington D.C.
1,375) Obama nominee Judge Staci Michelle Yandle illegally maintained the U.S. citizenship of al-Qaida terrorist Iyman Faris, who had met with Osama bin Laden, had planned to destroy the Brooklyn Bridge, and had falsely claimed to be a student on his immigration application
In January 2014, Obama nominated Staci Michelle Yandle to be a judge on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois.
In July 2018, Yandle ruled that an immigrant and al-Qaida terrorist named Iyman Faris could keep his U.S. citizenship.
However, Yandle's ruling was in violation of federal law. Federal law required Faris to be deported because he had lied on his immigration application.
Faris had traveled to Afghanistan, where he had met with Osama bin Laden.
Faris had also traveled to Pakistan, where he had met with Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, who was named as "the principal architect of the 9/11 attacks" in the 9/11 Commission Report. Mohammed told Faris that he was setting up a plan to destroy the Brooklyn Bridge by slashing its suspension cables. Faris agreed to participate in this.
Like the 9/11 terrorists, Faris had come to the U.S. on a student visa, but never actually enrolled in school.
ABC News reported that Faris had
"admitted he was an al Qaeda sleeper – a terrorist lying in wait for instructions"
and that he
"had access to airports and was licensed to haul flammable, poisonous chemicals"
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